There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure. View quote | Quotes about America

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels -- men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. View quote | Quotes about America

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. View quote | Quotes about Peace

We have heard much of the phrase, peace and friendship. This phrase, in expressing the aspiration of America, is not complete. We should say instead, peace and friendship, in freedom. This, I think, is America's real message to the rest of the world. View quote | Quotes about Peace

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone. View quote | Quotes about Persuasion

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage. View quote | Quotes about Politicians and Politics

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion. View quote | Quotes about Priorities

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield. View quote | Quotes about War

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without. View quote | Quotes about War

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. View quote | Quotes about War

Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. View quote | Quotes about War